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represented without a mane ; and it was conjectured, 

 that an animal with this character must have at one 

 time existed, or most probably did still exist in some 

 of the more unexplored districts. The first notice 

 of any grounds for this conjecture proving true, is 

 in a note to Griffith's Animal Kingdom *. " Major 

 Smith was lately informed by Professor Kretschmen 

 of Frankfort, that he was in expectation of receiving 

 from Nubia, the skin and jaws of a new species of 

 cat, larger than the lion, of a brownish colour, and 

 without mane." Within these few months, skins of 

 a large maneless lion, from Guzzerat, have been ex- 

 hibited to the Committee of Science of the Zoologi- 

 cal Society ; and we understand that a detailed de- 

 scription of them is preparing for the next part of the 

 Transactions of the Zoological Society f ; so that we 

 may soon expect to see this point set at rest. We 

 shall anxiously look for the appearance of this vo- 

 lume. 



We shall now endeavour to describe the lion of 

 the New World, an animal much inferior in size and 

 strength, and of very different habits. 



II p. 428. 



j- These Transactions are got up with great care. The 

 illustrations are beautiful, both in drawing ana execution. 



